Anti-natalism is neurotic self-hatred, rationalized by eco-catastrophism, into hatred of our whole species.https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1141693179521056768 …
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Replying to @primalpoly
Geoffrey, I am really disapointed by your shallow take, you're better than this. It has nothing to do about hatred. Read Benatar's book, there he offers a cold logical and reasonable approach to what he calls "the assymetry between being and not being".
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Replying to @primalpoly
Would you elaborate on a video/blog? I have yet to find a single counter-argument that is not a red herring.
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Replying to @NeskMadran
Benatar's argument is totally circular. His negative utilitarianism assumes that only suffering counts, & pleasure can never offset it, & then concludes that net utility is negative. If you delete all positive numbers then the average of all possible numbers is negative. So what?
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Replying to @primalpoly
It is not that only suffering counts. He says rather that in the absence of a sentient life, the absence of joy is not bad bc the joy has no subject who feels the loss anyways. The absence of pain on the other hand matters; it is better that nobody suffers.
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Replying to @NeskMadran @primalpoly
You never look at Mars and say god dammit there is no martians enjoying their life. However you look at the people living in the poorest slums in world and say god I wish nobody would endure this terrible fate.
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I look at the night sky all the time and feel sad that it isn't already full of life, and that we aren't getting our act together to populate it. Antinatalism just seems like a colossal failure of imagination and empathy about possible lives.
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